OAP scares off burglars with bugle blast

A pair of alleged burglars were sent running by a pensioner who scared them off with a blast on his homemade bugle.

78-year-old Alex Wade lives alone and said that he keeps the instrument by his bed for "emergencies". Wade, of Coventry, claimed that the men ran off empty handed after breaking into his home through a downstairs window on Wednesday.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the retired factory worker said: "I went to my bedroom door. I yelled into the hallway, "Who's there?", and then the two little scoundrels started talking among themselves.

"I opened my door and walked into the hallway and blew the bugle as loud as I could into one of the lads' faces. He looked absolutely startled and they both panicked and raced out the front door."

Two men aged 21 and 30 have now been charged with burglary and will appear at Coventry Magistrates Court on April 1.